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olushola oludipe
Web Development Techdegree Graduate 18,495 PointsRegular expressions email.py challenge task 2
my regex keeps catching the "@" used in the email address why?
import re
string = '''Love, Kenneth, kenneth+challenge@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5555, @kennethlove
Chalkley, Andrew, andrew@teamtreehouse.co.uk, 555-555-5556, @chalkers
McFarland, Dave, dave.mcfarland@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5557, @davemcfarland
Kesten, Joy, joy@teamtreehouse.com, 555-555-5558, @joykesten'''
contacts = re.search(r'''
(?P<email>[-\w\d.+]+@[-\w\d.]+),\s
(?P<phone>\d{3}-\d{3}-\d{4}),\s
''',string,re.X|re.M)
twitters = re.search(r'''
(?P<twitters>@[\w]+)
''',string, re.X|re.M)
contacts.groupdict()
1 Answer
Andy Hughes
8,478 PointsHi Olushola,
You're almost there. In effect, you're code looks for the @ symbol, but that symbol can appear anywhere. So you need to tell your expression to look for the @ symbol as the start of the string you're interested in.
The ^ character looks to the start of a string but that will still pickup anything after an @ symbol. So I tried adding a check for whitespace but this doesn't work. Then I tried the tab character which is 't'.
So @[^t] added to your expression should pass the challenge.
On a small note, I think twitter handles also allow numbers, so in reality you would want to add '\d' after your '\w'. You don't need it to pass the challenge though.
Hope that helps